Just wanted to share a frustrating experience here with you all in the hopes of saving someone else from the same situation.
I was trying to migrate a Fedora 17 install between similar Lenovo laptops. I decided to use UEFI exclusively when I first installed Fedora 17 and was happy with how well it worked. But when I went to move the drive between laptops I found that other laptops would not boot the drive. The original drive would boot it just fine in the original computer, just not in others.
Well after much searching on the web I found that I needed to re-register the drive with the UEFI subsystem for it to be recoginzed. Here is what I did
Assumptions:
Steps:
After running that I was finally able to boot UEFI again. I'm not sure if there is some other setting you can set to work around this issue but I hope this helps someone out. :D If anyone knows a good way to get around this it would be appreciated. Cheers!
I was trying to migrate a Fedora 17 install between similar Lenovo laptops. I decided to use UEFI exclusively when I first installed Fedora 17 and was happy with how well it worked. But when I went to move the drive between laptops I found that other laptops would not boot the drive. The original drive would boot it just fine in the original computer, just not in others.
Well after much searching on the web I found that I needed to re-register the drive with the UEFI subsystem for it to be recoginzed. Here is what I did
Assumptions:
- Drive with UEFI partition is /dev/sda
Steps:
- Boot your system using a live version of Fedora
- Open a terminal once its booted and run Code:
su -
- Run the following command Code:
$ efibootmgr --create -L Fedora --disk /dev/sda
- Reboot
After running that I was finally able to boot UEFI again. I'm not sure if there is some other setting you can set to work around this issue but I hope this helps someone out. :D If anyone knows a good way to get around this it would be appreciated. Cheers!
